Jean-sébastien Gélinas
Senior Backend Developer at nesto
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJean-sébastien Gélinas is a Senior Backend Developer with 17 years of experience building and leading teams that deliver scalable, reliable online services for AAA games and cloud-native products. Based in Montreal, he blends deep systems and C++ roots with modern backend and DevOps practices (Python, .NET Core, NodeJS, AWS, serverless) and has repeatedly driven testing, automation and CI/CD improvements. He has led multidisciplinary teams at Quantic Dream and Ubisoft, owning high-level system design while still contributing hands-on code and infrastructure work. Comfortable toggling between technical leadership and individual contributions, he routinely builds tooling and automations beyond his formal remit to reduce toil and increase velocity. His open-source QA contributions include hardening command-line tooling tests for the popular gli project, reflecting an attention to reliability across ecosystems. A former academic and polyglot engineer, he combines rigorous engineering discipline with a penchant for quickly mastering new technologies.
17 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Diplôme d'études collégiales, Informatique, cheminement réseautique, Diplôme d'études collégiales, Informatique, cheminement réseautique at Cégep de Sorel-TracyMaîtrise, Informatique, Maîtrise, Informatique at UQAM | Université du Québec à Montréal
French, English
Github Skills (6)
ruby10
test-automation10
testing10
command-line9
command-line-interface9
cli-application9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
davetron5000/gli
Jun 2013 - May 2020
Make awesome command-line applications the easy way
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:27 commits, 1 PR, 3 comments in 7 years
Contributions summary:Jean-sébastien primarily focused on improving the quality and reliability of the `gli` command-line application by adding and fixing unit tests. They addressed failing tests related to command options, global options, and configuration file generation. Their contributions included writing new tests to cover various scenarios and edge cases, as well as fixing existing tests to ensure accurate behavior.
command-line
calestar/my-config
Aug 2016 - Feb 2022
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 6 months
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